Vending machine



Oct. 23, 1928.

G. MARSDEN VENDING 'MACHINE Filed June 4; 1925 ZET-ITL l INVENTOR q-sc'necia MA @spa/Y Patented @et 23, i928 entre. stars isses asics.

GEORGE MARSDEN, 0F LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

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Application led June 4, 1925. Serial No 34,895. l

` means on its periphery by which articles may be lstored one on top of the other in several sections around the drum preparatory to being vended from the turning drum.

Another object is to provide a. base for such a turning drum with a curved recess partly in the path of the stored articles in the drum and curved outwardly from such a path to guide certain of the stored articles from the storing position so that they may be taken by an operator.

Other objects will appear from the following description and appended claims as well as from the accompanying drawing, in which- Fig. 1 is a horizontal section on line 1 1 of Fig. 2, showing articles stored in the rotating drum, and showing some of the articles from the lower layers of the several sections deflected from their rotating path to a discharging position in the curved recess of the base-member.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary vertical section on line 2 2 of Fig. l, illustrating a coin in position so that the rotating drum may be actuated to advance the stored articles over the recess in the base-member and thereby to a discharging position, the coin-holder being in this View illustrated in a position in line with the section line 22 though the same coin-'holder is shown in inoperative position as illustrated in Fig. 1.

rlhe drum 3 is provided with several vertically disposed partitions 4f, forming storinor sections 5 for the articles 6 to be dispenses or vended by an apparatus. This drum .isl

preferably rotatable around a centrally disposed shaft 7.

The articles to `be vended are not directlyk supported by the drum but are loosely disposed in the sections 5 one on top of another article, the several piles of articles resting shiftably on a base-member 8. rPhe lower'- most layer of the. articles, or the lowerinost article of each of the piles in the several sections is directly resting -on the base, and is shifted over the surface of the base-member when the rotating drum is actuated. The stored articles are under these conditions moved over the surface of the base-member in a. certain circular path.

A. certain Vportion of the surface of the baseemeniber, covered by the stored articles, within suoli circular path is pro-vided with a recessed path of a size that the vwhole pile of any section may drop to a limited eX- tent into this recessed pathat a certain point `or position when the storing ydrum is soro tated or moved. v

'lhe general top surface of the base-1nem ber is indicated by the arrow 9, While the lowervsurface Vof the recessed path is indicated by the arrow l0 in Fig. 2. rEhe beginning of the recessed path is indicated at 11 in Fig. l, so that the pile reaching the point or position indicated by the numeral 12 tends to drop to a lower position or level than occupied previous to reaching the beginning l1 of the path.

. rlhe recessed path deflects from the circular path in an evenly curved manner towards the outside as indicated at 13 in Fig. 1.

Upon reaching the position indicated at 14, any article dropped into the curved pathV or guideway is separated from the pile resting upon such lowermost article while the remaining articles in the same pile are caused to follow the general circular path within the housing 15.

The outermost edges 16 of the drum tend to push the separated article into the dischargedV position indicated at 17. The discharged articles may then easily be taken from the apparatus by t-he operator. v

A coin 18 is shownin operative position in an actuator 19. ally and swingably mounted on the lower end of the shaft 7 as indicated at 20 in Fig. 2,

and may be moved to bring thecoin into op- The actuator is pivote the Width of one of the sections of the drum,

and coming to the point indicated at 22 the coin drops out of engaging position.

The base-member 8 isfor this reason and purpose provided with a coinsupporting flange 23, as illustrated in Figs. l and 2, ex-

tending from a point near the inoperative po- .the shifting or moving of the actuator, the -coin sliding through the shifting movement of the actuator over the surface of the llange 23 until the coin passes beyond the termination 25 of the flange. On passing the edge 25 of the flange Q8, the coin simply drops from the flange into the hollow of the base 8.

While the coin is in operative position it extends upwardly far enough tof engage the drum for the turning operation.

I claim- Y 1. In a vending machine, a base-member, a storing drum disposed rotatably above the base-member having vertically disposed sections in which articles may be held and moved in a circular path one on top of anotherpreparatory to being vended, the base-member having a recessed path and guideyvay below the stored articles and of a orm so that the Whole pile of stored articles in any of the sections of the drum may drop to the. extent of the depth of the recessed path upon reaching a position above the path, the guideWay being curved 'outwardly from such circular' path including a discharging opening in the base so that articles may be caused to discharge from the stored piles upon rotation of the drum, and means for rotatingthe drum.

2. In a vending machine, a. storing drum disposed to rotate around a vertical axis having means on its Vperipher f for holding' articles to be vended to rotate around such vertical axis in a circularpath, a base-member having means to support said drum for rotating movements and having a discharging means in its top surface below said circula-r path and curving outwardly from such circular path in a practically horizontal plane by which stored artic-les may be separated from the drum preparatory to being discharged, and means for discharging these separate articles by a rotating of the drum.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name.

GEORGE MARSDEN. 

